On a roll here, chaps and chapesses .. that song by Ry Cooder, sung on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1982, was of course Elvis Presley’s, from 1961 … meaning 21 years later … so there’s a lot of this sort of thing going on. Written by Doc Pomus.
Doc Pomus, Wiki bio:
(Written) for what he said were “… those people stumbling around in the night out there, uncertain or not always so certain of exactly where they fit in and where they were headed.”
John Lennon told Pomus the first song the Beatles practiced together was a Pomus song. Bob Dylan came to Pomus when Dylan was experiencing writer’s block.
Pomus also focused in later life on helping forgotten R&B artists who had fallen on hard times.[3] The Rhythm and Blues Foundation provides artist grants through The Doc Pomus Artist Assistance Fund.[21]
“Save the Last Dance for Me” has been called his crowning achievement. The lyrics came to him at his wedding, watching his wife dance with others, Pomus being unable to dance because of polio’s effects on his body.[12][9]
And that very song is the finale in my long saga/trilogy called Masquerade, in which the two partners in life have passed over to the next house, about to go through yet another door to the next phase, apart, so they dance to this Doc Pomus song:
All right, enough nostalgia for now … let’s get back to the current day and its horrible politics … after an episode of The Saint which, incidentally, I’ve just sent to a friend of mine called lida, an architect/artist:
First … time for a little ditty from an ole guitarist, Ry Cooder:
Actually, David Lindley also played guitar on that track. Right … going to state, categorically, that I have never in my life moved from one sister to another … there have just been some things happening in RL in the last few days which two people know about, involving a big sister, long gone in the mists of time.
Just reminded me of the song, that’s all, plus the idea of returning to memories … hmmmmm, not at all sure about that as an exercise. Mixed. First there’s an album from the 70s by a German band, Thirsty Moon, called You’ll Never Come Back. Well I have … here I am for now … back. Who knows for how long?
Those days are past now And in the past they must remain But we can still rise now And be the nation again
Phew … talk about Britain in our case being right there in that position now. The other song was The Carnival Is Over, by the Seekers.
Now that song I’ve written of before. The scene was a warm summer’s evening by a bay, on the beach in Victoria, Oz, in the late 60s … endless summer, zero concept of that freedom ever ending, and a group of us were trudging through cool sand (I suppose) up to an actual, a real carnival, up in town beside a pier jutting out into the bay.
The wind was variable, the evening otherwise calm … we were just happy to be going to the carnival. The wind changed direction and the tannoys at the carnival suddenly sent a song our way … Judith Durham and that song. I swear that that is in no way embellished, embroidered … that’s exactly how it happened, the rest of the memory gone.
Some time after that, I did return here, drove north from London … there we go … things can suddenly change. Moral of the story? Appreciate what we have while we still have it.
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(1048) Sorry about the overkill but here’s a live version of it:
If you really want overkill, longsuffering tavern patrons, wait for Sunday afternoon around 1600, ha ha.
(0655) Well, we had the marathon fat-chewing yesterday, solving all the problems of the world, back to biz. (0746)
10. Finally found what IYE was referring to
Hmmmm, not going to spend any more time on it, other than to say it’s a rare occasion where (probably) Toodles as I know her Christian beliefs, plus IYE, plus I, all flatly reject the source as apocryphal and frankly anathema, as it stems from the other side. Separate post from me at some stage on esoteric pseudo-mysticism.
9. On Taxis for Veterans
… plus the HofL fence (Tue 9)
8. Act Blue
7. In which I obey the call
6. Younger “Restore” set
5. NYC communist cultist
4. DAD at 1093
a) Fusion is an illusion. During my long lifetime, ever since Dounray [AKA Doom Ray] started research, it has always been 30 years away.
b) RN President Bardella: Saving France is now a “Civilisational Challenge”. Le Pen’s heir is focusing on a potential confrontation with the far Left.
c) Poland. Dirty-tricks Tusk refuses to accept victory of Nawrocki in presidential election.
d) Jaguar car sales plunge 97.5% in Europe; after disastrous ‘Copy Nothing’ woke rebrand.
(0619) Morning all … simply crashed last evening, missed much of Steve, sorry me … plus ta Toodles and Redacted. Low, threatening cloud out there … lovely summer eh? (0651)
3. Moosh corner
2. Bumper Steve corner
a. From Vigilante Fox on X
That’s when Kennedy ended the interview with a bang, sharing his genuine thoughts about Trump for three straight minutes. It was one of the standout moments of the entire conversation. If you’re on the fence about Trump, listen to Kennedy here. It might just change how you see him. “I had him pegged as a narcissist, when narcissists are incapable of empathy. And he’s one of the most empathetic people that I’ve met,” Kennedy said. “He’s immensely curious, inquisitive, and immensely knowledgeable. He’s encyclopedic in certain areas that you wouldn’t expect,” he continued. Kennedy added that Trump genuinely cares about soldiers who go to war, citing how Trump “always talks about the casualties on both sides” of the Russia–Ukraine conflict.
“Whether it’s vaccines or Medicaid or Medicare, he’s always thinking about how this impacts the little guy. And the Democrats have him pegged as a guy who’s sort of sitting in the Cabinet meeting talking about how can we make billionaires richer. He’s the opposite of that. He’s a genuine populist,” Kennedy said.
Link to the full thing at 1093:1.
b. RFK Jr. tells Tucker Carlson the CDC buried its own internal study showing a 1135% INCREASE in autism risk from hepatitis B vaccination (Vigilant Fox/X)
Link at 1093:2.
c. Hearts of Oak at 1093:3
Hearts of Oak: Alex Phillips – Discovering God, Public Baptism and Speaking Truth in Media
d. War Room snippets at 1093:4
Josh Hammer: “This Supreme Court Ruling Is The Strongest Action Yet To Rein In These Activist Judges.”
Mark Beall: “The American People Do Not Want To See A Freebie For The Tech Industry To Do Whatever They Want”
Lt. Manuel Casas: “The Mass Invasion Of Illegal Invaders Was Completely Out Of Control.”
Dave Ramaswamy: “American Universities Have Turned Into Marxist Madrasas”
Forrest Zhou: The Black Hand Of The CCP Is All Over Zohran NYC Mayoral Primary Win
Eddie Hobbs: Trump Momentum Has Blown Across The Atlantic And Made A Significant Change In Europe
e. Regular overnight roundup from 1093 (selection)
The climate is about as “human-induced” as the stars of the Milky Way, but CNN and the Climate Cult would have us all believe otherwise
Musk must end his jackassery in the foothills
Strikes Overview: Ukrainian Drones Struck Russian Rear From Donetsk to Izhevsk
Iran Says No As US Seeks Nuclear Talks Restart, Demands Guarantees
Trump on Putting Crocodiles in Texas’s Rio Grande to Stop Illegal Border Crossers: “A lot of People Think we Should Do it, Frankly”
Elon Musk Responds to President Trump Opening the Door to Deporting Him Back to South Africa
Why Iran is Obsessed with Destroying Israel: The Centuries Old Sunni-Shia Divide
Much more.
1. Taken from the TDS newsletter this morning
”The Chief Executive of Warwickshire County Council has defied the authority’s newly elected Reform leadership by refusing to take down a Pride flag, leading Zia Yusuf to warn that “a coup d’etat is underway in Britain”. The Telegraph has the story.
George Finch, the new leader of Warwickshire County Council, ordered Monica Fogarty to take down the banner flying outside county hall in line with the party’s manifesto policy to only fly British flags.”
There’s of course the sodomy issue itself but I’m more interested in the presence in that quote of Yusuf., the fine upstanding member of no cult at all who certainly gets around in the shadows … thought they were rid of him after he quit the party dot dot dot.
(1756) Right, back again, evening all, grey sky, coolish.
16. Yes Andy … if you use leftist search engines
… then you’ll find denialist articles of course, grouped towards the top. Meanwhile:
Pilot refuses chemtrailling now finds himself in court, German Lufthansa pilot refused to activate his chemtrail equipment during flights over EU. He refused because he couldn’t live with his conscience and ultimately got fired for it, he is now in court fighting his termination pic.twitter.com/IWoH9ldJwu
(0958) Visitor in an hour or so, for some hours, have had to do most posting already, a bit more now, then a TV episode and film in the early afternoon, resuming later. That’s the cunning plan anyway. Am changing Sunday jazz … rather than the two Tuba Skinnies, I just happen to have the same old ditty by four different bands … so clearly it’s a classic from the period. (1500)
10. Consequences of your actions
9. Democracy, free speech and personal safety
8. Uh huh
7. My first thought was Irish Mandy’s
… but then I thought … read the fine print … it might be ok. Then again, Giorgia may well be weak.
(0417) Too early. Bleah out there, not as hot, a bit wet. (0806)
5. Uh huh
4. DAD at 1092
a) Decisions have consequences. UK: MP who voted for assisted suicide denied communion. *
b) Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Horizons de Nice, (and others) taken into police custody in Marseille on Monday … (connected to Nice).
c) Kazakhstan bans face coverings in public places.
d) The “Barber By N” store, located in Villefranche-sur-Saône, has been subject to administrative closure since June 25.
e) Finland’s Supreme Court is preparing to hold an hearing in the high-profile free speech case of former Interior Minister and Christian Democrat MP….
f) The ECHR decision that confirmed police ‘discrimination’ for the first time in France brings the issue of ethnic statistics back to the forefront….
g) A solar panel park near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is posing a serious safety risk and disrupting air traffic, according to airport authorities.
3. *On DAD’s 4a
What communists or spawn of satan or WEF version at every time in history have always done is study deeply every civil and civic underpinning, institution in society with a view to crowbarring fissures into it, resentment, making it unworkable.
No one knows the bible better than this lot, no one knows the nation’s laws to the letter better than this lot I’ll call Them. In jocular form, WC Fields spoke of looking through the bible … for loopholes.
Whether the new bad Pope (immediately Catholics excommunicate me) and the Patriarch who met, dripping in gold plating and trappings (that’s the Orthodox now excommunicating me) or whether it’s Calvin treacherously inviting Savonarola in order to burn him to death (that’s any Calvinists excommunicating me in my depravity and original sin) and so it goes on and on …
… every single denomination or cult (that’s Jim Joneses or Mansonists) looking for me to kill, if other cults don’t get to me first … DAD’s 4a today was all about shaitan creating fissure, though Them do not state it to be such. Was the priest in order to refuse communion? If so, then what about Leviticus and other chapters on unnatural use of other humans? Should they not be refused to?
Same human failing as Lucy Connolly v Glastonbury … either hypocritical or cherry-pickingly inconsistent humans over-emphasising this verse and neglecting that. One anti-Christian cult at least raises that to an art form.
Should the human priest have refused communion? To my mind, it comes back to remorse=> atonement=> redemption. Was that MP remorseful or was he another whited sepulchre?
2. Steve at 1092
CNN Promotes a Dangerous Anti-ICE Crowdsourcing App as Immigration Officers Come Under Assault
‘More Diversity of Thought on the Political Right Than on the Political Left’
Canada Cancels Tax on US Tech Firms, and Trade Talks Resume
DOJ Charges 324 in Largest Healthcare Fraud Takedown in US History – $14.6 Billion Scheme Involved 96 Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists Targeting Medicare and Medicaid
Border Czar Tom Homan Announces AOC Now Under Federal Investigation
Merz takes over Project Ukraine
Dr Blaylock warns: Nano-aluminum in government chemtrails triggering Alzheimer’s epidemic